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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk | First time back since the 2024 CrossFit Games · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  What's going on, everybody?
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  We're back.
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  The Sunday night CrossFit
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  Talk crew is back in the house.
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  After a two-week sabbatical,
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  unintended but much needed.
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  But here we are back again to talk.
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  So before we get into much,
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  I do want to preface a couple things.
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  One, I got back from Dallas.
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  I had a sinus infection.
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  My doctor is now starting me
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  from scratch testing everything again.
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  So they have taken me off
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  all antihistamines.
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  so that they can test me for
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  what I may or may not be allergic to.
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  So that means that I am
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  holding back an itchy
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  throat that could turn into
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  a cough at any moment.
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  So I want to start off the show with that.
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  So please bear with me if
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  that does happen.
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  I'll just turn it over to
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  the ladies if I go into a
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  full on fit and they can
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  carry the show from there.
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  other thing is uh we usually
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  have a page where we have
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  lots and lots of notes um
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  about what we're going to
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  talk about just kind of
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  guiding us into a
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  discussion it doesn't have
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  like the full discussion
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  that that isn't here
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  tonight um I have wrestled
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  for a week on what I wanted
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  to say I have no idea
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  what's going to come out
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  tonight this is going to be
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  completely unscripted um we
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  haven't even really talked this week
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  Generally,
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  we are talking back and forth
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  throughout the week and it
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  has been pretty much radio silent.
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  And so it may all just come
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  out in one big onto the air tonight.
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  So buckle up,
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  hang on tight and we'll see
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  what happens because who the heck knows.
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  You know,
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  I haven't even seen your haircut.
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  It looks good.
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  Wow.
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  Thanks.
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  Yeah.
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  Right before I left,
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  I usually always right
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  before like a big event,
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  get a haircut because when it's like this,
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  it doesn't take a lot of maintenance.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  So it takes away five
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  minutes in the morning of hair prep.
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  Yeah.
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  And you know, you're always rushing.
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  Yes.
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  Um, so yeah.
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  And anything outside of
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  CrossFit that you guys have
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  been doing over the last week or so,
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  just to kind of get away from it all.
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  Um,
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  I know I've needed a break here and
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  there.
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  So thank goodness the NFL
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  season starting for me.
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  I am my Chicago bears have
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  played preseason games and
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  I've been able to watch and
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  they've done so well and
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  everybody is loving what they're doing.
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  And that has actually made
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  me happy this week.
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  That's good.
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  Yeah.
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  um, Lucas starts school on Wednesday.
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  Absolutely insane.
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  Starts his senior year.
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  Um, and tennis has been in full swing.
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  Uh,
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  they actually had a tournament on Friday.
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  So I had a very busy Friday.
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  Like I was up at like four
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  or five 45 in the morning
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  to get him to breakfast
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  before their team bus took off.
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  And we didn't get home till
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  like 10 30 at night.
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  So it was over in Caledonia.
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  Um,
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  little bit South of Grand Rapids.
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  So our 15 minutes away.
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  Um, and it was, it was a hot day,
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  long day.
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  Um, yeah.
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  So that was my watch.
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  Yeah.
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  Gosh,
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  you should see my like stress just
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  watching.
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  It's like almost more
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  stressful for me sitting
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  there watching him play
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  tennis than going out on
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  the competition floor.
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  I was a wreck.
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  I was like, I'm going to throw up.
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  Um,
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  Lex S, senior, almost done.
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  How are you feeling?
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  I don't know.
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  I'm feeling stressed.
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  There's just,
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  it's a lot like with him
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  going back to school and
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  tennis already starting and
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  he still doesn't have his
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  driver's license.
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  So I, you know,
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  I got to drive him to practices,
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  which cuts some of my days
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  shorter at the gym than I would like.
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  Um, so I'm just, I don't know.
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  I,
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  I feel like my training's not where I
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  want it to be, but that's such as life.
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  Yeah.
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  Uh,
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  Bruce says my daughter's also a senior
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  this year.
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  And, uh,
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  Jay Birch said the first year in 25,
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  I didn't start school.
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  Retirement is starting off good.
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  When do you start Carolyn?
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  I go back the 28th of August and yeah.
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  So this week I started looking over.
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  some stuff for the beginning
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  of the school year.
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  Um, but yeah,
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  I have to be back the 29th of August.
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  We have a PD day.
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  Um,
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  and then we have a long weekend for
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  like the labor, um, Labor Day weekend.
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  And then we don't start
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  until I think it's September 3rd,
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  whatever that Tuesday is.
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  That's our first day back.
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  So it'll be basically back for
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  Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  and that Wednesday evening,
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  I'm back to California
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  again for the NorCal Classic.
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  So it's like going back for
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  a few days and then right
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  back to California.
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  Holly, on the other end of the spectrum,
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  just started kindergarten this week.
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  Those were the days.
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  So that's a good place to start, Carolyn.
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  NorCal Classic.
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  And Crash Crucible are like
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  the two hot events coming
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  up in the CrossFit schedule.
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  I knew at one time you were
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  considering doing both.
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  Are they too close together to do both?
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  Because I've seen some
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  comments about maybe people
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  could not do both events.
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  No, I think you can definitely do both.
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  Okay.
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  Just curious.
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  I think people will be doing
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  both or if it's not crash
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  and nor like they're doing,
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  let's say water blues,
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  a sort of SoCal and crash.
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  Like I think you can do,
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  you can do multiple it's the off season.
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  Uh, you could always do, um, you know,
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  the month,
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  like the end of October and
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  November off and then re
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  pick it back up in December.
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  Um, yeah, it's, it's no issue.
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  I saw Jamie post.
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  You did, uh, some of the crash, uh,
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  qualifier.
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  I did – so I was actually going to do,
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  like, all of them just for funsies,
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  just to get some intensity and kind of,
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  you know,
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  get some feedback of where I stand.
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  But – so I did Thursday,
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  I did the deadlift wall ball one,
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  and then I didn't have –
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  didn't even make it to the gym on Friday.
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  And then yesterday I did
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  Kelsu just to really trash myself.
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  Yeah.
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  If everyone knows what that workout is,
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  a hundred thrusters with
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  five burpees every minute on the minute.
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  So I don't know.
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  I might do the, Oh yeah.
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  It's a rough one.
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  I might do the seven rounds
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  of the Bart muscle up strict dancing,
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  push up one tomorrow.
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  It looks like I like that workout.
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  So I was talking to Haley
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  and Josh Mario after I
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  interviewed Haley on Friday
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  and they were talking about
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  how well those crash, uh,
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  workouts are programmed and
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  they love JR's programming.
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  And so they actually
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  incorporated all the
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  qualifiers into her training.
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  Yeah.
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  Because it was a great like
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  lead up to the Masters games.
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  Yeah, I agree.
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  Who's programming?
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  Is it HWP?
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  It says presented by HWPO.
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  What does that mean?
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  Is that are they programming
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  the qualifier or is it JR
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  doing the whole thing?
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  I guess I was just confused
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  with the presented by HWPO.
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  So I watched JR's show where
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  he released them last Thursday,
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  and he definitely
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  programmed the entire Crash
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  Crucible qualifier himself.
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  He did have Taylor look at
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  them and give some feedback.
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  He had some other people look at them,
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  but he definitely programmed them.
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  I think HWPO is just a sponsor,
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  not necessarily a programmer.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah,
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  I don't know why he would outsource that.
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  Yeah.
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  That is not what he needs to outsource.
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  Yeah, that's why I was confused.
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  I was like,
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  it wouldn't make any sense
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  because he loves programming.
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  So I was just confused by
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  that because I saw it was HWPO.
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  presented, but yeah,
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  those are some hard workouts.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Hundreds.
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  Um,
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  we had the hundreds workout last year
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  at crash and I saw that I
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  that's the one I was like, I could do,
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  I like it,
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  but it's longer than anything
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  we're going to see at masters.
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  Um,
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  which we'll probably talk about a
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  little bit.
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  So I was like,
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  that one's not worth me doing.
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  It's just not even a time.
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  Don't mean we're going to touch, but
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  Yeah.
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  He said that he likes those
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  long workouts that aren't
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  necessarily just a
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  monostructural movements.
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  So wasn't surprised to see
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  that first workout with the
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  four movements at a hundred.
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  It's like the first, like the,
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  the row and the dumbbell snatch,
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  the strong athlete will be
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  looking at those two,
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  but then not necessarily
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  like the next two movements
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  or the gymnast and cardio
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  people like the last two movements,
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  but maybe not as much in the first two.
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  Yeah.
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  Back half a workout for sure.
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  Yeah.
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  The other thing he talked
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  about is he was asked like
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  how many games athletes were coming.
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  And he said that, you know,
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  some of the people that he
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  invited and said they were
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  coming did better at the
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  games than they initially anticipated.
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  And really that this is a
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  workout for people coming up.
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  or like trying to come back,
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  not necessarily for someone
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  who's already on top and is
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  currently there.
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  And he understands that with
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  like Rogue and the games,
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  his event is just not big enough to like,
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  and he understands that and
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  he's fine with it.
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  Yeah.
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  It just gives more people
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  the opportunity to get some exposure,
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  which I thought was a
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  really cool way to put it.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Um, Jeffrey Birchfield is asking,
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  is Carolyn going to do
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  trifecta rogue challenge?
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  I do all the rogue challenges.
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  So yes, I wouldn't say I'm at my,
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  like the strongest right now,
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  but I'll do my best.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  What's the trifecta this year?
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  Is it always the same or is
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  it always different workouts?
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  No,
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  they do different workouts every month.
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  Um, it's a max strict press,
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  a max front squat and a max
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  sumo deadlift.
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  Interesting.
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  Wow.
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  Okay.
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  Is it now in those, is it by body weight?
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  Like, do you weigh in and it's no,
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  or there's,
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  so there's three weight divisions.
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  Light, I think is 121 and below.
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  Okay.
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  Middle is between 121 and 168, 167.999.
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  And then above 168 is the heavyweight.
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  But then within that weight class,
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  it doesn't matter after that.
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  And then you have an hour to
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  do all three and you have to like weigh,
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  like measure everything.
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  It takes so long to do a setup.
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  I did the thousand pound challenge.
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  years ago and just like
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  measuring and weighing
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  every single weight was
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  like 20 minutes um but yeah
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  so every every um month
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  normally it's a different
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  challenge like there's not
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  many like crossfit
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  challenges it's a lot more
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  uh machine base or
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  strongman stuff and then
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  the odd maybe an olympic
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  lift max or uh power lifting stuff so
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  All right, well,
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  let's get into the tough
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  part of the evening's
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  conversation that will
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  hopefully allow us to move
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  forward and into more discussion later.
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  But the CrossFit Games
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  happened last weekend.
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  For those who... Well,
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  let me start with this.
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  The tragic event with Lazar
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  Jukic happened on day one.
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  Is there anything that
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  either of you would like to
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  say about Lazar or I just
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  want to give you the
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  opportunity since we're
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  here tonight to do that.
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  I've said on a roundtable
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  that I knew Lazar.
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  He was the first interview I
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  ever did on Morning Chalk
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  Up with his brother Luca.
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  It was such a cool interview
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  because they were both so
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  giddy because they had made
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  the games together.
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  Lazar had refused his
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  invitation in 2019 because
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  he felt he wasn't ready.
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  And then when he made it back again in 21,
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  he made it with his brother.
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  And they were so ecstatic about that.
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  And it will always be a very
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  fond memory I have.
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  of Lazar, um, meeting him that way.
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  And he actually was the
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  bigger brother and did most
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  of the talking because Luca
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  was so giddy about making
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  the games and giggly and
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  that Lazar had to do a lot
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  of the talking and,
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  and be that big brother.
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  So, uh, uh,
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  That's a great memory.
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  And I've run into him since.
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  He's always kind,
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  was always such a great dude.
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  And it's been tough for me this week.
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  I'm not going to lie.
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  It has been when it happened at the games.
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  My dad died recently.
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  But when my dad died,
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  I had my family around me.
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  When this happened in Texas,
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  I felt very alone.
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  It's the first time I didn't
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  take a travel companion with me.
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  and um and I and I felt very
• 14:20
  lost and alone and I don't
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  think I dealt with my
• 14:23
  feelings well over the
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  weekend and um so it's
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  taken me the better part of
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  a week just to kind of get
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  through that I did have
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  some friends step in um
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  And that helped during the day.
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  But when you go back to your
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  hotel at night and you're
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  there by yourself with your
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  own thoughts and own stuff,
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  and it's not about me,
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  it's just grieving is tough.
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  The other aspect of that is
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  my family grieves with laughter.
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  Right.
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  Um,
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  we want to remember fondly about what
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  is going on.
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  And for most of the weekend, um,
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  it felt like you didn't
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  have permission to grieve with laughter.
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  Right.
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  And it, it,
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  and I don't even know how you
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  can to describe that.
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  Um,
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  Grant and Amanda did do that
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  with me when we were in
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  spots where we were kind of
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  by ourselves and alone.
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  But publicly,
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  you looked around for
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  permission to do anything.
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  And it made it almost
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  impossible to move forward
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  from whatever grief you were feeling.
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  And so...
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  Again, we're unscripted tonight.
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  There's nothing down what
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  we're going to say.
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  But that's why it's been a
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  quiet week from us because
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  it's taken me most of the
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  week to kind of get through
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  a lot of this.
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  So do either of you have anything to say?
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  It definitely shook Lex and
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  I when we were watching the
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  games on the Thursday.
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  It's something that
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  like you just don't expect to see,
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  especially when like, to me,
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  he was like the favorite to
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  win the event and they were
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  so close to the finish line.
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  And just to, to think on like, just,
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  I can't even imagine what
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  it was like for those
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  athletes that were there, the fans,
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  the volunteers,
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  everyone that was there
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  because like just seeing it online,
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  like I was visibly like
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  shook for like a few days and it was,
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  it was very difficult.
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  Um,
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  I can't say like I knew him super well,
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  but I've obviously seen him
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  at like a lot of the
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  competitions I've competed
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  at and he's always been
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  very nice and smiley and stuff like that.
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  And I was just always super, um,
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  excited to see him compete
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  with his brother.
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  Like I think seeing, um,
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  the joy of those two
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  qualifying this year in the
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  semifinals was, um,
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  know you got excited to
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  watch them finally compete
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  together like and it was
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  just it was tragic it was
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  sad I was angry I was
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  confused on just everything
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  happening and yeah just it
• 17:19
  had me reflecting on the
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  fact that like you know it
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  could be anyone and um I'm
• 17:24
  not the strongest swimmer
• 17:26
  and like I when I had to
• 17:28
  even like swim the mile
• 17:29
  with the fins like that one
• 17:31
  year in 2021 like I was scared too
• 17:34
  in the water and I just
• 17:35
  think about like what if no
• 17:37
  one was there and I was
• 17:38
  panicking too so you just
• 17:39
  start reflecting on like
• 17:40
  different competitions
• 17:41
  you've done in the water
• 17:43
  and everything and just
• 17:46
  like how it happened it was
• 17:48
  yeah I mean it it's it was
• 17:50
  hard to watch it's like
• 17:53
  yeah it's traumatic yeah
• 17:58
  Yeah, I didn't know him personally either.
• 18:02
  I've been in the same room
• 18:06
  with him at the 22 games
• 18:08
  when I was back there with Jim.
• 18:09
  He was one of the athletes that... So...
• 18:15
  When it was all together,
• 18:16
  I would feel like the main
• 18:19
  individuals would kind of
• 18:20
  go off to their own section
• 18:22
  and stay private.
• 18:23
  And I'd say three or four
• 18:25
  would stay out in the
• 18:27
  bigger common area where
• 18:29
  your masters and teens were.
• 18:31
  And he was always out on
• 18:33
  that floor the whole weekend, like around,
• 18:36
  nodding, smiling.
• 18:37
  Like if you walk by, you know,
• 18:38
  like he just, he was a...
• 18:41
  very sociable person you
• 18:43
  could tell and um yeah
• 18:45
  everyone's stories like you
• 18:47
  just that you hear you're
• 18:49
  like yep that's that dude
• 18:50
  like that's exactly how I
• 18:52
  picture him how he was when
• 18:54
  I walked by um yeah and
• 18:59
  It shouldn't matter.
• 19:00
  Like he, like it just,
• 19:02
  he was an incredible,
• 19:03
  incredible person and it
• 19:05
  doesn't matter who it was.
• 19:06
  It just, it,
• 19:07
  it seems extremely tragic and
• 19:09
  extremely tragic when you
• 19:11
  have a brother there in the
• 19:13
  competition with you.
• 19:14
  It's I mean, yeah.
• 19:19
  So,
• 19:19
  the other thing I know about Lazar is
• 19:22
  he was a fiery, fiery competitor.
• 19:25
  Yeah.
• 19:26
  Right?
• 19:26
  I was in the media pit when
• 19:28
  he was getting no-repped on
• 19:30
  the front-facing handstand
• 19:34
  push-ups with the brick in 22.
• 19:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 19:37
  Like,
• 19:38
  and he is losing his mind over
• 19:40
  getting the no reps, right?
• 19:42
  Because he loved to compete so much.
• 19:45
  And last year, you know,
• 19:46
  infamously him and Justin
• 19:48
  had the bike wreck and the
• 19:50
  fire that came out of him there, right?
• 19:53
  So there was no right
• 19:56
  decision from the moment
• 19:58
  that happened to move forward.
• 20:00
  But I know in knowing him,
• 20:01
  he would want to keep competing, right?
• 20:07
  I'm pretty sure he would
• 20:08
  want to keep competing just
• 20:10
  knowing how he's acted.
• 20:12
  But,
• 20:12
  and I have no problems with people
• 20:14
  saying I cannot compete
• 20:15
  further or can or whatever.
• 20:19
  But what I'm having a hard
• 20:20
  time making sense of at
• 20:22
  this point is those that
• 20:24
  did go on and compete.
• 20:27
  And there I am in Dallas and
• 20:29
  I'm watching the whole thing.
• 20:33
  At the end of the weekend,
• 20:35
  what did we get out of this?
• 20:39
  Does any of it mean anything?
• 20:47
  I don't know how it came
• 20:48
  across on the telecast, but in person,
• 20:51
  there were obviously people
• 20:52
  that even though they stayed to compete,
• 20:57
  could not compete.
• 21:00
  So it was hard to do any
• 21:02
  kind of analysis over what
• 21:04
  you're seeing that we
• 21:06
  typically do on this show.
• 21:09
  Moritz Fiebig could barely
• 21:11
  get to a jog on anything
• 21:13
  because he was so crushed.
• 21:18
  I can't analyze his work.
• 21:20
  There was no doubt that dude
• 21:22
  is hurting bad and he's
• 21:25
  moving down the floor at
• 21:26
  whatever pace he can.
• 21:28
  So at the end of the weekend,
• 21:30
  do we really have,
• 21:33
  and I don't even know the answer to this,
• 21:34
  do we really have a fittest on earth?
• 21:42
  I mean, I'm of the opinion.
• 21:44
  I'll be honest that it
• 21:46
  should have been canceled.
• 21:47
  If I'm being honest,
• 21:48
  like I know I wasn't there
• 21:50
  and I don't know what it
• 21:51
  was like for those athletes to compete.
• 21:54
  Um,
• 21:56
  I feel like there was maybe there's no
• 21:58
  right way,
• 21:58
  but there's maybe better ways
• 22:00
  to go on with, um, the weekend.
• 22:03
  I still would have had like a,
• 22:05
  a Memorial and things that
• 22:07
  the community can still get together.
• 22:09
  but the thought of the
• 22:10
  competition was really hard
• 22:12
  for me to get behind.
• 22:14
  And I was really struggling
• 22:17
  to even watch at all
• 22:18
  anything because I was just
• 22:20
  angry all weekend.
• 22:22
  And I mean,
• 22:24
  there was athletes that were
• 22:25
  not competing.
• 22:26
  Like you said,
• 22:27
  there's athletes that are competing,
• 22:28
  but are visibly crying on the floor.
• 22:30
  There's athletes that are
• 22:31
  just better able to put
• 22:34
  that aside during the three, two, one go.
• 22:37
  And I just felt like you couldn't,
• 22:39
  you couldn't analyze the competition.
• 22:41
  And quite frankly, I didn't want to.
• 22:45
  Like, I didn't like watching.
• 22:47
  I didn't feel good watching it.
• 22:49
  And I just, I'm sure the athletes felt,
• 22:52
  you know,
• 22:52
  a similar way where they're competing,
• 22:54
  but they didn't really feel
• 22:56
  very good about it.
• 22:57
  And it was just, I don't know, like to me,
• 23:00
  like there was no winners.
• 23:01
  Like we all lost Lazar that weekend.
• 23:04
  And I have a hard time,
• 23:08
  saying that even the
• 23:09
  programming tested for the
• 23:11
  fittest on earth with the
• 23:12
  fact that two events are eliminated,
• 23:15
  one of the workouts were modified.
• 23:17
  And even with that,
• 23:18
  I didn't think the test
• 23:20
  also was as well-rounded as
• 23:24
  we've seen in the past.
• 23:25
  I just struggled with so
• 23:26
  many factors over the weekend.
• 23:33
  Yeah, I just,
• 23:34
  I think there were just other ways to...
• 23:40
  move forward with the
• 23:40
  weekend without putting the
• 23:41
  athletes in that position so fast.
• 23:44
  Even considering asking, let's say,
• 23:47
  Luca's family if they should go on.
• 23:49
  To me, that wouldn't even matter.
• 23:53
  They're not even thinking about that.
• 23:54
  They just lost Lazar.
• 23:59
  I just had trouble watching
• 24:03
  the competition for sure.
• 24:09
  I mean, I think Brent said this, like,
• 24:14
  if there was a tragedy when
• 24:16
  he was at home,
• 24:18
  he would go to the gym and work out.
• 24:19
  That's how he would grieve.
• 24:23
  And I do think that that holds true.
• 24:24
  And I do think the community needed to,
• 24:26
  like, come together together.
• 24:30
  I can only imagine if it
• 24:31
  would have been shut down
• 24:33
  and it would have been kind
• 24:34
  of radio silent,
• 24:35
  how that would have felt
• 24:37
  like a gaping hole for the
• 24:39
  whole community.
• 24:40
  Like,
• 24:42
  I think in a way we needed to work
• 24:44
  through this.
• 24:46
  Do I think it was the best
• 24:47
  way it played out?
• 24:47
  I don't know.
• 24:50
  I mean,
• 24:50
  I hear there was talks of all kinds
• 24:52
  of different, you know,
• 24:53
  more of an exhibition.
• 24:55
  um but again we can't judge
• 24:58
  any of any of the athletes
• 24:59
  choices um regardless of
• 25:02
  what they chose to do um
• 25:05
  and at the end of the day
• 25:06
  there was a set of tests
• 25:10
  and two people prevailed at
• 25:12
  the end the woman's side I
• 25:14
  don't think was going to
• 25:15
  matter no matter what um
• 25:16
  but you know there was an
• 25:18
  exciting race at the end of
• 25:19
  the men's side and
• 25:23
  Carolyn, we said it a couple of weeks ago,
• 25:25
  last year's tests were
• 25:27
  extremely upper body pulling biased.
• 25:32
  to say like these were a
• 25:33
  terrible set of tests or it
• 25:35
  just wasn't a complete set of tests.
• 25:37
  It is what it is.
• 25:38
  I feel like there's always
• 25:39
  something every year that
• 25:40
  somebody can say,
• 25:41
  and he's the fittest of 2024.
• 25:45
  James is like, like to me,
• 25:47
  it was just like, yeah, like he, he took,
• 25:49
  it's not, it's not James's fault.
• 25:51
  It's not anyone's fault that
• 25:52
  like competed.
• 25:53
  Like that's the thing that's tough, right?
• 25:54
  It's,
• 25:55
  it's not their fault that people weren't,
• 25:57
  you know,
• 25:57
  all at the same capacity to even
• 26:00
  take the test.
• 26:01
  Um,
• 26:02
  James was the best at taking it,
• 26:04
  followed by Dallin and so forth,
• 26:07
  and staying on the female side.
• 26:08
  It is what it is.
• 26:10
  To me, it was just like, I don't know,
• 26:13
  I just had trouble.
• 26:15
  We could still work out
• 26:17
  through things and do
• 26:18
  things as a community,
• 26:20
  but to put the competition part,
• 26:25
  I feel like, I don't know.
• 26:28
  I would have personally
• 26:30
  liked to have seen it a different way,
• 26:31
  but again, I'm not there.
• 26:33
  I'm not those athletes.
• 26:35
  I have a lot of respect for
• 26:39
  the athletes that decided not to compete,
• 26:44
  and I also have respect for
• 26:46
  the ones that put Lazar's
• 26:48
  name on the floor the whole weekend.
• 26:49
  It was not a good scenario either way, but
• 26:56
  It's just my personal
• 26:57
  opinion and my feelings
• 26:58
  towards the competition.
• 27:03
  Yeah,
• 27:03
  I'm kind of of the belief at this
• 27:05
  point that there were a set of tests.
• 27:08
  The decision was made to move on.
• 27:11
  If you passed all the tests,
• 27:13
  you're the fittest on earth.
• 27:16
  And this year they had to
• 27:18
  deal with something much
• 27:19
  bigger than any in years past.
• 27:22
  And I will say...
• 27:27
  Here I am, I'm grieving for,
• 27:28
  for Lazar and then people
• 27:31
  that I really love in the
• 27:33
  space really did well over the weekend.
• 27:37
  And I felt, I felt so bad for them that,
• 27:45
  that for like,
• 27:49
  they weren't allowed to enjoy it.
• 27:51
  Yeah.
• 27:54
  Right.
• 27:56
  James has this personality, like,
• 27:59
  and he's so deep-rooted in his faith that,
• 28:02
  like, he seemed to enjoy the win.
• 28:06
  But, like, my dear friend Emily,
• 28:09
  who makes the podium for
• 28:11
  the first time in her career,
• 28:12
  woman is 34 years old, makes the podium,
• 28:17
  and she had an amazing weekend.
• 28:20
  And, you know...
• 28:22
  they didn't even put their metal.
• 28:24
  You guys didn't even see the
• 28:25
  award ceremony because they
• 28:26
  didn't broadcast it.
• 28:28
  Like they,
• 28:29
  none of the athletes felt like
• 28:31
  they were allowed to put the metal on.
• 28:33
  Yeah.
• 28:35
  And that's the sad part too, right?
• 28:36
  Cause it's not the athletes
• 28:37
  like fault and it's, they're put in a bad,
• 28:42
  they're put in a bad position.
• 28:43
  They were put in a bad position to,
• 28:46
  you know,
• 28:46
  make the call hours after
• 28:48
  whether they are ready to compete or not.
• 28:51
  Um,
• 28:52
  It looks bad if they post
• 28:53
  something on social media.
• 28:55
  It looks bad if they sell it.
• 28:56
  It's just like,
• 28:57
  it's very difficult in
• 28:58
  those positions for those athletes.
• 29:04
  But again,
• 29:05
  my heart just goes out to the
• 29:07
  Lazar family.
• 29:08
  And to me,
• 29:09
  that was the most important
• 29:11
  thing of the weekend was just, you know,
• 29:15
  thinking about him and
• 29:18
  finding whatever way people
• 29:19
  needed to grieve
• 29:22
  i can't judge the way that
• 29:25
  everyone did it but like I
• 29:26
  know personally I wouldn't
• 29:27
  have been able to continue
• 29:29
  on um with the competition
• 29:35
  yeah and trust me like
• 29:37
  lazar has been in my
• 29:38
  thoughts for over a week
• 29:41
  but I'm trying to find ways
• 29:43
  to move forward at this
• 29:44
  point not forget not any of
• 29:47
  that but just to keep moving forward um
• 29:53
  I've heard a lot of things.
• 29:55
  These are just some random
• 29:56
  thoughts about the weekend.
• 29:59
  What got lost in this thing
• 30:02
  is there were a lot of cool
• 30:04
  improvements from a venue,
• 30:08
  a media standpoint,
• 30:12
  that everything got swept
• 30:13
  under the rug because of what happened.
• 30:15
  And it should have been.
• 30:17
  It should have been swept under the rug.
• 30:19
  But that there were vast
• 30:21
  improvements this year.
• 30:23
  That arena was gorgeous.
• 30:28
  It was very easy to get into.
• 30:31
  Security was tight, other than security.
• 30:35
  But it was easy to get in and out of.
• 30:39
  My Uber dropped me off at the front door,
• 30:41
  picked me up at the front door.
• 30:42
  Super easy.
• 30:46
  they had assigned seats for
• 30:47
  media we've never had that
• 30:49
  in the past we've always
• 30:49
  had to wait an hour in line
• 30:51
  to get a seat to get into
• 30:52
  the arena to watch anything
• 30:54
  um the vendors were open
• 30:59
  and there were lots of them
• 31:00
  so the lines weren't so
• 31:02
  long like they were in um
• 31:06
  Madison, Alex said security was tough.
• 31:10
  Security was tough,
• 31:11
  but they say it's the same security.
• 31:13
  They give Taylor Swift the same security.
• 31:15
  They give a rodeo.
• 31:17
  It's that's just their arena policy.
• 31:23
  And security was done by them, not by,
• 31:25
  not by CrossFit.
• 31:28
  Um,
• 31:30
  But it was really cool.
• 31:32
  The fact that they had
• 31:33
  counters on some of the
• 31:34
  ergs for the first time ever,
• 31:36
  where you could actually physically see.
• 31:42
  I don't get why they
• 31:42
  couldn't have done that for Chad.
• 31:45
  To think that they were
• 31:47
  going to eliminate after
• 31:49
  the Chad event and cut the
• 31:51
  field and you wouldn't even
• 31:52
  know where you are in the race.
• 31:54
  Yeah.
• 31:54
  and to have no strength
• 31:56
  events even prior to that,
• 31:57
  like there's like a lot of
• 31:59
  like head scratchers for me.
• 32:01
  My guess is they didn't have,
• 32:04
  but I would have liked to
• 32:05
  have seen that counter for
• 32:08
  Chad because visually that
• 32:13
  it had four digits.
• 32:15
  So it could have done Chad
• 32:17
  even though they cut it to
• 32:18
  two 50 with the way they did it.
• 32:20
  I don't,
• 32:22
  i don't think they had 80
• 32:23
  counters I'm with uh andrew
• 32:25
  stenn I think they had 10
• 32:28
  one per lane uh and used it
• 32:31
  in events where they could
• 32:34
  uh larry young says um and
• 32:36
  I got to meet larry uh
• 32:38
  which was awesome um
• 32:41
  he liked the venue,
• 32:41
  but going back and forth to
• 32:43
  vendor village, he gave up on.
• 32:45
  And a lot of people did that
• 32:46
  because security was so tough.
• 32:48
  Every time you entered the either facility,
• 32:51
  you had to go through that
• 32:52
  checkpoint again.
• 32:53
  Yeah.
• 32:54
  That's what I heard.
• 32:55
  Overarching complaint was lines.
• 33:00
  Um,
• 33:02
  I don't know.
• 33:04
  I just saw a lot of it.
• 33:06
  As nice as the arena was,
• 33:09
  I saw far more comments of
• 33:12
  Madison was better.
• 33:13
  And they should have never left.
• 33:15
  Those are people that are
• 33:16
  just angry at everything else.
• 33:18
  The seats were not broken down.
• 33:21
  They were way more comfortable.
• 33:22
  The sight lines were better.
• 33:24
  Yeah, but if you can't get in to watch,
• 33:28
  does it even matter?
• 33:30
  What do you...
• 33:33
  you just have to schedule it
• 33:35
  or just being closer to the
• 33:36
  vendor village and
• 33:37
  activities would probably
• 33:38
  be easier from the Madison entrance.
• 33:40
  There were four major
• 33:41
  entrances with probably
• 33:44
  three security lines at
• 33:45
  each entrance to the main arena.
• 33:49
  You had lots of options to go in.
• 33:53
  I never stood outside for
• 33:54
  the venue longer than 10 minutes.
• 33:58
  You have a person, Larry Sane right here,
• 34:01
  he stopped going back and
• 34:02
  forth because it wasn't worth it.
• 34:03
  Now, Vendor Village I heard was bad.
• 34:08
  Well,
• 34:08
  that's not good because you need
• 34:09
  Vendor Village to be,
• 34:12
  you need that to be extremely accessible.
• 34:13
  You need your fans to go back and forth.
• 34:17
  Farrington Field was a disaster.
• 34:20
  People couldn't even get in.
• 34:23
  It looks like a lot of people got in.
• 34:24
  They were almost full on the one side.
• 34:26
  It was not full.
• 34:26
  You could see so many open seats.
• 34:30
  The home bleachers were almost full.
• 34:33
  The visitor ones, the outsides were empty.
• 34:37
  But that seats 20,000 people.
• 34:39
  We've never had close to
• 34:40
  that at any CrossFit event.
• 34:50
  Um...
• 34:53
  I don't even know what I was here.
• 34:55
  Uh, uh, Jay Burch.
• 34:57
  I got in cross fat said the
• 35:00
  line was for vendor village
• 35:02
  and the football field main
• 35:04
  venue was already great.
• 35:15
  Yeah.
• 35:15
  The main venue is fine.
• 35:16
  Uh,
• 35:21
  I'm telling you,
• 35:23
  I've been to Madison a bunch of times.
• 35:24
  I would be upset to go back
• 35:27
  to that old clunky arena
• 35:30
  again after what this was.
• 35:38
  The lighting was so much better.
• 35:41
  You could actually see people.
• 35:46
  My pictures came out way
• 35:47
  better than they ever have.
• 35:53
  Jay Birch, I was there.
• 35:56
  It was pretty full at Farrington Field.
• 35:59
  That's good.
• 36:05
  So, okay.
• 36:09
  So there's that.
• 36:12
  Anything else we want to say
• 36:13
  about the games before we move on?
• 36:18
  I do want to say
• 36:23
  All right.
• 36:25
  I've debated about saying this all day,
• 36:27
  but I'm going to say it now.
• 36:32
  The one thing that I've kind
• 36:33
  of decided this week is that,
• 36:37
  and it's upset me very much,
• 36:39
  so I don't know how this is
• 36:40
  going to come off,
• 36:41
  but when I feel like
• 36:46
  there's a lot of people in
• 36:47
  this community pushing
• 36:49
  whatever their thoughts
• 36:50
  were before going into the
• 36:51
  CrossFit Games,
• 36:53
  after the crossfit games
• 36:55
  using lazar's death and
• 36:59
  parts of that are really
• 37:00
  upsetting me right we don't
• 37:06
  know the facts of the case
• 37:07
  at this point there are if
• 37:11
  you look at the me report
• 37:12
  there's already been a
• 37:12
  prosecutor assigned to this
• 37:14
  case you know that this is
• 37:16
  going to go through the
• 37:17
  legal system in some way
• 37:20
  CrossFit announced that they
• 37:21
  are putting Peter Edge and
• 37:24
  former Homeland Security
• 37:26
  investigator in charge of a
• 37:29
  third party report to tell
• 37:32
  them what what they did wrong.
• 37:35
  There's a lot of facts for us to learn.
• 37:38
  One of the big things that
• 37:39
  is really upsetting me is
• 37:40
  whatever your agenda was
• 37:42
  before the CrossFit Games,
• 37:44
  and I've had plenty of
• 37:45
  agenda on this show.
• 37:47
  I've talked about things
• 37:48
  that I think CrossFit has
• 37:49
  sucked at or that they need to do better.
• 37:53
  People are using this
• 37:54
  tragedy to push that agenda
• 37:57
  that they've always had.
• 38:01
  There are legit beef...
• 38:03
  From what happened that weekend,
• 38:06
  that you could, whatever,
• 38:10
  that you could take from
• 38:11
  that and move an anger position toward,
• 38:16
  I get that.
• 38:21
  Regardless,
• 38:24
  that's been very upsetting to
• 38:25
  me this week.
• 38:27
  Because one of the things
• 38:28
  that I've always complained
• 38:29
  about is that communication
• 38:31
  from CrossFit has been horrible.
• 38:34
  And during this weekend,
• 38:36
  that was on display.
• 38:37
  Media had no freaking idea
• 38:40
  what was going on at any time.
• 38:43
  We had to hear from other
• 38:44
  people whether we were moving on or not.
• 38:49
  Like if we had a connection
• 38:50
  with an athlete or a
• 38:51
  connection with... They
• 38:53
  didn't even speak to the
• 38:54
  third-party media.
• 38:56
  Our liaison wasn't even in
• 38:58
  the room until Saturday.
• 39:07
  And then a week later to say,
• 39:09
  we're not doing any more
• 39:10
  swim events until further investigation.
• 39:13
  You could have said that
• 39:15
  Thursday afternoon.
• 39:19
  Well,
• 39:19
  I think there obviously is going to
• 39:21
  be some, I mean, in my opinion,
• 39:23
  lawsuits and stuff like that right now.
• 39:24
  And while they're,
• 39:25
  name is on a lot of these competitions,
• 39:28
  like they're gonna wanna
• 39:29
  figure out what the best, you know,
• 39:32
  safety protocols will be
• 39:34
  going forward so that it's
• 39:35
  consistent with every event.
• 39:37
  Cause it's not consistent
• 39:38
  right now between every event.
• 39:42
  And to go back on your point
• 39:43
  of like people using what
• 39:45
  happened to push like other agendas.
• 39:48
  I mean,
• 39:49
  people have their own opinions of
• 39:51
  everything, but to me, like,
• 39:55
  I'm still angry with what
• 39:57
  happened with CrossFit and
• 39:59
  it's just like accumulation of things,
• 40:00
  I think,
• 40:01
  and a buildup of frustration and anger.
• 40:04
  And then there's things that
• 40:05
  we saw with our own eyes,
• 40:06
  like on the video, right?
• 40:07
  Like you literally, we know what we saw.
• 40:10
  So it's hard to be like, uh,
• 40:12
  we're waiting for investigation a,
• 40:14
  B and C to get done.
• 40:15
  Like,
• 40:15
  obviously there's a lot more
• 40:16
  information missing,
• 40:18
  but we still saw a lot to
• 40:21
  still make like our own, um,
• 40:25
  not opinions, but our own, I guess,
• 40:27
  judgment, I guess of it.
• 40:30
  Yeah.
• 40:30
  And I don't,
• 40:31
  I don't know what the answer
• 40:32
  is to everyone else or people,
• 40:35
  not everyone,
• 40:36
  but possibly pushing other things.
• 40:38
  Like it just should all just
• 40:39
  be about athlete safety,
• 40:42
  Lazar's family and how we
• 40:44
  can prevent this from ever, ever,
• 40:47
  ever happening again,
• 40:48
  because in all honesty,
• 40:49
  we have been so lucky that this is,
• 40:54
  this has not happened before.
• 40:56
  When I look back on some of
• 40:57
  the competitions that I've
• 40:58
  had swimming very early in
• 41:00
  the morning for certain,
• 41:01
  for certain groups,
• 41:02
  not enough people in the
• 41:03
  water and you know,
• 41:04
  other things like to have
• 41:07
  consistency between the
• 41:09
  competitions I think can only be good.
• 41:12
  And I'm hopeful that, you know,
• 41:16
  some positive can come out
• 41:17
  of this to protect, um,
• 41:20
  the athletes going forward.
• 41:22
  And it doesn't mean
• 41:23
  eliminating everything.
• 41:24
  It doesn't mean swimming
• 41:25
  can't come back because
• 41:26
  people are like losing
• 41:27
  their mind over that.
• 41:29
  I don't like swimming can come back,
• 41:31
  but I think it's having
• 41:32
  consistency between each
• 41:33
  comp and some comps will be like, Oh,
• 41:35
  we've done it this way.
• 41:36
  We've never had anything go wrong.
• 41:38
  It doesn't mean because you
• 41:38
  have had nothing go wrong,
• 41:40
  that your competition has
• 41:41
  had the perfect also, um,
• 41:43
  protocols because that's
• 41:44
  not the case also.
• 41:46
  So just to have, you know,
• 41:48
  maybe bring in more people,
• 41:49
  bring in some experts and
• 41:51
  figure out what works best
• 41:53
  and to have it consistent,
• 41:54
  consistent will be very
• 41:56
  important going forward.
• 41:59
  In no way am I saying that.
• 42:01
  And like,
• 42:02
  I understand athletes have the
• 42:04
  right to be angry.
• 42:06
  Like, like you said before,
• 42:11
  you're not a strong swimmer.
• 42:12
  Like,
• 42:15
  would they have gotten me?
• 42:16
  Would they have, you know,
• 42:18
  like I get the anger there.
• 42:21
  And so it's more from other
• 42:22
  directions that I'm, you know, and there,
• 42:32
  there's two things.
• 42:33
  I'm,
• 42:33
  I'm upset that people are using a
• 42:36
  man's death to push an
• 42:37
  agenda that they've always had.
• 42:39
  And I always,
• 42:40
  and I also feel like I saw a lot of,
• 42:46
  non authentic people this week.
• 42:50
  And with that,
• 42:52
  I was hurt because some of
• 42:54
  those people I never
• 42:56
  thought I would see be inauthentic.
• 43:02
  And
• 43:05
  one thing lazar always was
• 43:07
  was an authentic human and
• 43:10
  to use his death in a way
• 43:12
  that is inauthentic just
• 43:14
  really hurt me and I've
• 43:15
  been struggling with all
• 43:16
  week yeah so yeah and
• 43:23
  there's just been I think
• 43:24
  there's been a like with
• 43:25
  some of that stuff because
• 43:27
  there was lack of
• 43:27
  communication there's been
• 43:28
  a lot of talk and chat and
• 43:31
  chatter here and there without
• 43:36
  without names being said.
• 43:37
  So then people are just judging people.
• 43:38
  And I don't like that at all.
• 43:44
  Yeah.
• 43:45
  You don't have to say names.
• 43:47
  You can go through Instagram
• 43:48
  and you can pretty easily
• 43:50
  tell who is being inauthentic and not.
• 44:01
  So.
• 44:05
  Yeah.
• 44:05
  Yeah.
• 44:07
  So those are the things that
• 44:09
  I wanted to bring up.
• 44:14
  I think we've covered all
• 44:15
  the news from the games.
• 44:18
  Anything else you guys want to talk about?
• 44:21
  Or we can move on to... I think,
• 44:26
  in my hope,
• 44:27
  I want to move on to a
• 44:28
  competition that may help
• 44:30
  us move forward.
• 44:32
  A competition that
• 44:33
  represents what CrossFit was founded on,
• 44:36
  and that is...
• 44:38
  to make people healthy late in life,
• 44:40
  to be able to play with their grandkids,
• 44:43
  to be able to get off the
• 44:44
  toilet at the age of 65,
• 44:45
  to do those things.
• 44:49
  And what the origins of
• 44:51
  CrossFit were about.
• 44:53
  And that is the Masters
• 44:54
  CrossFit Games that are
• 44:55
  coming up Labor Day weekend.
• 44:59
  Our very own Jamie Latimer
• 45:01
  is going to compete.
• 45:03
  I saw you got your shirts in.
• 45:05
  Have you been able to get
• 45:07
  them out to everybody?
• 45:08
  I think everyone, Craig's in the chat.
• 45:11
  I'm curious if he got his.
• 45:12
  I think Holly was here.
• 45:14
  Curious if she got hers.
• 45:20
  Yeah, I think pretty much there's like,
• 45:23
  I still have like 10 at the
• 45:24
  gym that people need to
• 45:25
  come in and pick up,
• 45:26
  but I mailed them all out.
• 45:29
  Craig got his.
• 45:30
  Awesome.
• 45:32
  Take a picture in it, Craig.
• 45:33
  Tag me.
• 45:34
  I love to see them on people.
• 45:41
  With that,
• 45:42
  you had a meeting with the organizers.
• 45:44
  We did.
• 45:45
  We had a 30-minute
• 45:46
  informational meeting on Thursday.
• 45:50
  I think Tuesday or Wednesday,
• 45:53
  we received an athlete
• 45:55
  packet with some heat times and
• 45:59
  basically a general schedule.
• 46:01
  And so it was pretty clear
• 46:02
  from that email that there's 10 events.
• 46:05
  Um, we have three on Thursday,
• 46:07
  two on Friday,
• 46:08
  three on Saturday and two on Sunday,
• 46:13
  obviously no swimming, um,
• 46:15
  all in the convention center.
• 46:18
  They did say, because people were asking,
• 46:20
  will, will we be going outside?
• 46:23
  Do we need to be prepared?
• 46:24
  Um, they said there was one event,
• 46:26
  probably something like, um,
• 46:32
  Like when they did Helena
• 46:33
  last year for the individuals, like,
• 46:35
  and it got running like a
• 46:36
  200 or 400 that we didn't get details,
• 46:38
  but he said,
• 46:38
  you will run outside the
• 46:40
  venue and back in and do
• 46:42
  some stuff for four rounds.
• 46:44
  So, um,
• 46:46
  that's our only exposure to the
• 46:49
  outside air that we'll get.
• 46:50
  Otherwise we're inside the venue.
• 46:53
  The whole weekend,
• 46:53
  55 plus only has eight events.
• 46:59
  So there's two events that
• 47:01
  just the younger age groups have,
• 47:06
  whether it's ability, capacity,
• 47:11
  just volume tolerance.
• 47:13
  One of them is Thursday's
• 47:15
  first workout for us.
• 47:16
  It's a three-minute workout, so...
• 47:22
  get assume what you want
• 47:23
  from that um and then yeah
• 47:26
  they're kind of short for
• 47:28
  my liking we have a two
• 47:30
  minute event a three minute
• 47:31
  event a five minute event
• 47:33
  two eight minute events um
• 47:35
  so half of our events are
• 47:36
  eight minutes or less and
• 47:37
  then we have a 11 12 13 15
• 47:40
  and 18 minutes is our
• 47:41
  longest event and those are
• 47:47
  the cap times not
• 47:48
  Correct.
• 47:49
  And yeah,
• 47:49
  it could be a four round for time
• 47:51
  with 18 minute cap.
• 47:54
  Right.
• 47:55
  Exactly.
• 47:58
  Yeah.
• 47:59
  I know that when that came out,
• 48:00
  you weren't the most
• 48:01
  excited friend I've ever
• 48:02
  had because you like those long,
• 48:05
  long grindy chippers.
• 48:07
  Yeah.
• 48:12
  Yeah.
• 48:13
  Yeah.
• 48:16
  I think it's because they
• 48:17
  have way too many people.
• 48:18
  Yes.
• 48:22
  They confirmed that they did
• 48:23
  all the programming.
• 48:25
  So I don't know.
• 48:26
  I think we all thought maybe
• 48:28
  Castro or Boz would have
• 48:30
  some say in this and it doesn't appear.
• 48:33
  I don't think they got...
• 48:36
  Haley asked on the...
• 48:38
  Murillo asked on there if
• 48:39
  there would be like
• 48:40
  handstand ramp or anything
• 48:41
  we need to prepare for.
• 48:42
  And they said no.
• 48:45
  Like they tried to get some stuff.
• 48:48
  Basically,
• 48:48
  they said it's going to be very...
• 48:50
  bait like everything you can
• 48:52
  find in your everyday gym
• 48:53
  so again I just feel like
• 48:56
  the budget cuts like don't
• 48:58
  give us much we just get
• 49:00
  what we get and it is what
• 49:03
  it is so andrew stan who is
• 49:07
  a part of that leadership
• 49:09
  group for masters says
• 49:10
  crossfit did have input oh
• 49:14
  One thing that surprised me, sorry,
• 49:17
  going back to the games,
• 49:18
  was the similarity with the
• 49:20
  team workouts and the
• 49:21
  individuals this year were much closer,
• 49:23
  I think, than in the past.
• 49:25
  So I was wondering maybe the
• 49:26
  Masters would have some sort of carryover,
• 49:29
  possibly one or two events.
• 49:30
  I'd just be curious if we
• 49:32
  would see something like that.
• 49:35
  Yeah.
• 49:35
  I was very curious too.
• 49:36
  Like, I mean,
• 49:37
  that's why I tried to pay
• 49:38
  attention to the
• 49:38
  individuals just to glean anything.
• 49:42
  Would there be a workout
• 49:44
  that we would do like the
• 49:45
  Dickies triplet or something like that?
• 49:47
  Like, could that be the one we see?
• 49:51
  Yeah.
• 49:53
  Cause that would be
• 49:53
  interesting to see a
• 49:54
  trickle like down effect
• 49:57
  between all the divisions.
• 49:58
  Then there's like a
• 49:59
  comparison throughout the ages.
• 50:01
  Yeah.
• 50:03
  on a certain baseline workout.
• 50:06
  Yeah.
• 50:08
  Yeah.
• 50:09
  And just remember the,
• 50:13
  Sean Woodland and Chase
• 50:15
  Ingram are calling the Masters games.
• 50:18
  So you're getting an A-team
• 50:20
  in there calling the stream.
• 50:22
  It's not the iPhone 5 from the roof.
• 50:24
  It is an actual professional
• 50:27
  stream with really good announcers.
• 50:33
  Tommy Marquez and Lauren
• 50:35
  Khalil are doing the floor stuff,
• 50:37
  I believe.
• 50:38
  So, yeah.
• 50:44
  There's three floors.
• 50:45
  I don't know how that will
• 50:46
  look broadcast wise.
• 50:49
  Um,
• 50:50
  I don't know if they're out of the
• 50:51
  arena or the convention
• 50:53
  center or whatever.
• 50:54
  Like there's two distinct areas.
• 50:58
  I don't know where you're
• 50:59
  squeezing in a third,
• 51:00
  unless it's like for maybe
• 51:02
  that three minute, you know what I mean?
• 51:05
  Like something you can just
• 51:07
  kind of run through.
• 51:08
  Yeah.
• 51:09
  So I'm guessing, so one,
• 51:10
  it sounds like from what he said,
• 51:12
  one of the floors is going
• 51:13
  to look like that side floor at MFC,
• 51:16
  just lanes.
• 51:19
  And then one of the floors
• 51:21
  has a large normal rig,
• 51:25
  probably your 15 foot rig with ropes.
• 51:27
  Um,
• 51:27
  and then one of the floors has your
• 51:30
  smaller A-frame rig.
• 51:33
  So one is just going to be
• 51:34
  like those lanes, um,
• 51:37
  just like at MFC.
• 51:38
  So that'll be a,
• 51:40
  probably a much smaller area.
• 51:42
  Okay.
• 51:45
  It's going to be tough
• 51:45
  covering all those floors.
• 51:48
  Yeah.
• 51:48
  And so like, I'm kind of curious,
• 51:49
  does like floor three,
• 51:51
  say floor three is the small,
• 51:53
  no equipment floor essentially.
• 51:55
  Um, does that not get a camera on it?
• 51:57
  Does that one not get broadcast?
• 51:59
  I don't know.
• 52:02
  Yeah.
• 52:03
  I don't know.
• 52:05
  Uh,
• 52:08
  There's no obstacles, John.
• 52:11
  Well,
• 52:12
  they could do cones versus the stairs
• 52:14
  like a zigzag.
• 52:18
  Yeah.
• 52:19
  You did the rampant crash last year.
• 52:22
  Yeah.
• 52:26
  Don't, yeah, me.
• 52:27
  I saw it.
• 52:27
  It wasn't great.
• 52:28
  It was the first time you'd
• 52:31
  ever attempted it.
• 52:32
  Yeah.
• 52:33
  I haven't done it since.
• 52:36
  What do you know, John?
• 52:37
  Share.
• 52:38
  Is there more leaks in the
• 52:40
  masters than the individuals?
• 52:45
  If you know, someone else knows,
• 52:48
  share with the rest of the class.
• 52:50
  Also, that's ridiculous, again,
• 52:52
  with the leaks that happen.
• 52:55
  But again, not surprised.
• 52:57
  I say it every year that there's leaks.
• 52:59
  Mm-hmm.
• 53:00
  Can I just say one more
• 53:01
  positive from the games weekend?
• 53:03
  I really enjoyed the 200
• 53:05
  meter run inside the arena.
• 53:07
  Yeah.
• 53:09
  I like that so much better
• 53:11
  than an assault runner or
• 53:13
  anything like that.
• 53:14
  And it visibly or visually,
• 53:16
  it looked really good.
• 53:18
  So easy to tell who was in first,
• 53:21
  who wasn't.
• 53:22
  Yeah.
• 53:22
  Anytime you can have a, you know,
• 53:25
  a foot race and you can see
• 53:26
  where you're at.
• 53:27
  It's, it always looks good.
• 53:30
  now the bumping and the the
• 53:33
  rubbing is racing happened
• 53:34
  a lot on the men's side for
• 53:35
  sure and a little tiny bit
• 53:38
  on the women's side yeah um
• 53:44
  So we're super excited.
• 53:46
  We're going to be there for
• 53:47
  the entire weekend.
• 53:49
  Hopefully I can get Carolyn
• 53:50
  on in the evenings to do
• 53:51
  wrap-up shows with me from there.
• 53:55
  Jamie will be competing,
• 53:56
  so she'll be a little bit busy.
• 53:58
  Maybe she'll pop on for five
• 53:59
  minutes and just give us an
• 54:01
  update of the day.
• 54:02
  But we have our team
• 54:03
  together for the behind-the-scenes,
• 54:06
  which is now officially
• 54:07
  going to be myself and
• 54:09
  Ellie Hiller will be doing
• 54:10
  the interviews in the back.
• 54:13
  Jonathan Ortega and my
• 54:17
  friend Caitlin Walters will
• 54:19
  be doing the video of the floor.
• 54:23
  And Holly will be doing all
• 54:26
  the stats and graphics for
• 54:29
  the behind-the-scenes.
• 54:31
  So...
• 54:32
  Hoping to put that together.
• 54:34
  Still looking for a couple more sponsors,
• 54:35
  hopefully.
• 54:36
  We'll get some, but yeah,
• 54:39
  super excited about that.
• 54:41
  And the Masters community is
• 54:43
  so excited for it.
• 54:45
  And I've had so much fun talking to them.
• 54:47
  You are killing it with the interviews.
• 54:52
  So much fun.
• 54:54
  The bad thing is, you know,
• 54:56
  generally when I interview somebody,
• 54:57
  we go off the off air and
• 54:59
  then we chat for a little bit.
• 55:01
  These,
• 55:02
  these athletes want to chat Haley
• 55:05
  and Josh.
• 55:06
  Like I'm like, guys,
• 55:07
  I have an interview in like
• 55:08
  three minutes.
• 55:08
  I've got to go.
• 55:09
  Um, but they're just,
• 55:13
  they're just the sweetest people, man.
• 55:15
  Is Haley going back to crash?
• 55:19
  Uh, I don't think so.
• 55:20
  No,
• 55:22
  I don't think they have masters this
• 55:23
  year.
• 55:23
  Do they?
• 55:24
  Yeah.
• 55:24
  They do?
• 55:26
  Well, J.R.
• 55:27
  asked me if I'm coming back.
• 55:28
  Okay.
• 55:30
  Maybe she is.
• 55:31
  We didn't really get into it.
• 55:34
  They were bragging on J.R.
• 55:35
  's programming.
• 55:36
  Yeah.
• 55:37
  And they're doing all the qualifiers,
• 55:38
  so maybe.
• 55:40
  Yeah.
• 55:43
  But she doesn't feel like
• 55:44
  she's really in shape
• 55:47
  because she's been a coach
• 55:49
  more than an athlete.
• 55:50
  Oh, she's working out alongside Haley.
• 55:52
  She's incredibly fit.
• 55:55
  she said to me that it appears that way,
• 55:58
  but there's a lot of stuff
• 55:59
  she could not hang with Haley.
• 56:02
  And so she, she didn't even try,
• 56:06
  but there was stuff that
• 56:07
  like Kaylee needed to push on.
• 56:09
  And so Haley Maria would
• 56:11
  jump in and push her.
• 56:14
  Um, but yeah, so we have that coming up.
• 56:19
  Um, then one interesting thing I saw, uh,
• 56:21
  is rogue is developing an echo rower.
• 56:28
  Because they took away the
• 56:30
  Easy Bike by making the Echo Bike.
• 56:33
  Now they're going to take
• 56:34
  away the Easy Rower?
• 56:35
  The Easy Bike.
• 56:38
  Do you think it's going to
• 56:38
  be like the Assault Runner style?
• 56:40
  Or the Assault Rower style?
• 56:45
  I don't know.
• 56:46
  I'm curious.
• 56:48
  It's probably just going to
• 56:49
  be made so strong that it's
• 56:52
  indestructible.
• 56:54
  The C2 Rower already is indestructible.
• 56:58
  You don't need to mess with a good thing.
• 57:03
  They want to take over the world, Pinky.
• 57:08
  The gyms are all outfitted with C2 rowers.
• 57:11
  That is the standard.
• 57:12
  We do not need another piece of equipment.
• 57:16
  Gyms have invested thousands
• 57:18
  of dollars on 20 plus rowers.
• 57:22
  And then you want to throw
• 57:22
  in this other piece of equipment?
• 57:24
  No.
• 57:24
  No.
• 57:27
  That's a great point.
• 57:28
  All right.
• 57:33
  Well,
• 57:34
  Waterpalooza SoCal has also announced
• 57:39
  their partnership with the PFAA.
• 57:42
  So they are partnering.
• 57:44
  This is not new.
• 57:45
  Waterpalooza Miami did that in January.
• 57:49
  Now SoCal is doing it for
• 57:51
  their competition in September.
• 57:56
  That's good.
• 57:57
  I mean,
• 57:57
  I think more comps will pull them in.
• 58:01
  I mean, they're being pretty outspoken.
• 58:06
  Rogue needs more money, I guess.
• 58:11
  Yeah,
• 58:11
  I think it's good for the PFA to be
• 58:14
  in talks with competitions
• 58:15
  or at least have some sort
• 58:16
  of athlete union conversation.
• 58:18
  always in talks for stuff
• 58:20
  the thing that's very
• 58:21
  interesting about our sport
• 58:23
  I was talking to lex today
• 58:24
  about this is like most of
• 58:26
  the unions in sports like
• 58:28
  the workouts are known or
• 58:30
  the like the the
• 58:31
  competition is known but
• 58:32
  we're in a in a sport where
• 58:34
  stuff is unknown so certain
• 58:36
  athletes let's say in the
• 58:36
  pfa would have access to
• 58:39
  information maybe earlier
• 58:40
  than others obviously shares it, um,
• 58:43
  with the rest,
• 58:43
  but it's just an
• 58:44
  interesting difference of
• 58:47
  our sport because of the
• 58:48
  whole unknown and
• 58:50
  conversations that have to
• 58:51
  happen with the PFA.
• 58:54
  Um, but regardless,
• 58:55
  I think it's important to, um,
• 58:58
  have athletes that know the movements,
• 59:02
  knows the risks involved with, um,
• 59:06
  sort of like competitions.
• 59:07
  So I think that's a good move by water.
• 59:12
  Yeah, I think it's,
• 59:13
  it's a good first start.
• 59:15
  I think there are ways
• 59:16
  around it and what we can
• 59:17
  get into this in the off
• 59:18
  season when we have a lot
• 59:20
  where we can talk about directions,
• 59:21
  but you know,
• 59:22
  a lot of unions will put
• 59:23
  together like a third party
• 59:27
  committee where both sides
• 59:28
  get to put the members of
• 59:29
  that committee together and
• 59:31
  to come to an agreement
• 59:33
  right so it's not the
• 59:35
  actual players or the
• 59:37
  owners it's this third
• 59:39
  party that comes up with it
• 59:40
  or approves it um who
• 59:43
  aren't directly involved
• 59:45
  but they're elected there
• 59:46
  by both sides of the the
• 59:49
  negotiating table I didn't
• 59:53
  realize that the c2 really
• 59:54
  wasn't indestructible
• 59:56
  apparently uh wad zombie
• 59:58
  has ripped the handle off a
• 59:59
  c2 row or twice
• 1:00:01
  That's crazy.
• 1:00:02
  I, before my back injury,
• 1:00:05
  I would move a rower across the floor.
• 1:00:07
  Oh, I've seen it.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Right.
• 1:00:10
  I've never broken a rower.
• 1:00:13
  Never.
• 1:00:18
  Wads on visa beast.
• 1:00:19
  If he's done that.
• 1:00:20
  Props to you, Nick.
• 1:00:22
  I did snap a,
• 1:00:25
  it's like the little curvy
• 1:00:27
  piece that goes into the handle.
• 1:00:30
  So we just had to replace that one piece.
• 1:00:35
  I did crack one of those ones.
• 1:00:45
  That's because Nick is strong.
• 1:00:51
  All right.
• 1:00:52
  Any last thoughts for tonight?
• 1:00:57
  Ten more sleeps.
• 1:00:59
  Ten more sleeps.
• 1:01:02
  When are you getting down there?
• 1:01:04
  We'll get I'm going to leave
• 1:01:05
  Tuesday morning,
• 1:01:06
  but I think we're going to
• 1:01:07
  stop somewhere.
• 1:01:08
  Nashville ish,
• 1:01:10
  maybe a little before that
• 1:01:13
  sleep there and then get
• 1:01:14
  back up in the morning and
• 1:01:16
  go the rest of the way.
• 1:01:17
  We don't need to be there
• 1:01:18
  before like noon.
• 1:01:21
  We can't check in until four,
• 1:01:23
  and I don't think my
• 1:01:24
  check-in is until later
• 1:01:26
  afternoon at the venue.
• 1:01:29
  Oh, go ahead, Carolyn.
• 1:01:34
  Will they announce any workouts before?
• 1:01:36
  Did they say anything about that?
• 1:01:37
  If they'll release anything
• 1:01:39
  and then did they talk
• 1:01:39
  about the uniforms for you guys?
• 1:01:41
  That's my two questions for you.
• 1:01:42
  Oh, yes.
• 1:01:45
  We are getting workouts
• 1:01:47
  released starting Monday
• 1:01:49
  was the plan most likely.
• 1:01:52
  The first one they're going
• 1:01:52
  to release is the one that
• 1:01:53
  they said would have the running.
• 1:01:56
  So that's probably the first
• 1:01:57
  one we'll hear about.
• 1:01:57
  And they'll probably,
• 1:01:59
  he said they would not announce them all,
• 1:02:01
  probably leave two to, I don't know,
• 1:02:04
  two or three in the secrecy.
• 1:02:07
  So all week we should get a
• 1:02:08
  workout essentially.
• 1:02:10
  And then the, yes, they,
• 1:02:18
  obviously they've heard all
• 1:02:18
  the complaints about the uniforms.
• 1:02:20
  So the solution is that we
• 1:02:21
  can buy more Northern
• 1:02:23
  Spirit apparel if we would like.
• 1:02:28
  We can wear any Northern
• 1:02:29
  Spirit apparel on the floor.
• 1:02:31
  So we can go to the booth and buy more.
• 1:02:34
  But it is mandatory for every event.
• 1:02:38
  And you said you had 10 events?
• 1:02:42
  And three uniforms?
• 1:02:43
  Or was it more?
• 1:02:45
  Yeah, I believe it's three.
• 1:02:46
  Because it wasn't even
• 1:02:47
  enough for each day.
• 1:02:48
  Like it wasn't even four outfits.
• 1:02:50
  Yeah.
• 1:02:51
  Three outfits.
• 1:02:53
  Do you have laundry?
• 1:02:55
  No, I don't.
• 1:02:56
  I have a sink.
• 1:03:01
  I mean,
• 1:03:02
  at least if you're going to
• 1:03:03
  acknowledge that,
• 1:03:05
  at least give like a 50%
• 1:03:06
  off coupon for the Northern
• 1:03:08
  Spirit booth or something.
• 1:03:09
  Just be like, you know,
• 1:03:10
  we're trying to do what we can.
• 1:03:12
  Here's a discount to get
• 1:03:14
  some more apparel items.
• 1:03:16
  There's just a lot of you
• 1:03:17
  and that was our budget.
• 1:03:19
  And I would at least respect that.
• 1:03:22
  Just to be like, well,
• 1:03:23
  come spend more money.
• 1:03:24
  I mean, it's frustrating.
• 1:03:26
  Everything about this seems
• 1:03:27
  like a money grab.
• 1:03:31
  Lex says having to buy more is ridiculous.
• 1:03:35
  Yeah.
• 1:03:37
  Or, like, my... And I didn't speak up,
• 1:03:40
  so it is kind of... It's
• 1:03:42
  not fair of me to say this now, really.
• 1:03:44
  But, like...
• 1:03:46
  I would if if you're
• 1:03:48
  acknowledging there isn't enough uniforms,
• 1:03:50
  but you want it to look good,
• 1:03:51
  like at least pick your
• 1:03:53
  like primetime events and just say, hey,
• 1:03:56
  are your your evening event Thursday,
• 1:04:00
  Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• 1:04:01
  You have to be on the floor
• 1:04:03
  in northern spirit.
• 1:04:04
  Like those are the four
• 1:04:05
  events you must wear.
• 1:04:07
  And we ask that you can for
• 1:04:10
  the other events as much as possible.
• 1:04:13
  But we acknowledge that, you know,
• 1:04:16
  some stuff might be dirty and,
• 1:04:18
  but just pick the,
• 1:04:19
  pick the like main events
• 1:04:21
  that like are going to
• 1:04:22
  showcase our sport the most
• 1:04:24
  and that are your prime
• 1:04:26
  time hours on YouTube.
• 1:04:28
  I don't know.
• 1:04:29
  That would be my solution, but I get it.
• 1:04:35
  Andrew Sten says,
• 1:04:36
  that's on Northern Spirit and CrossFit,
• 1:04:39
  not Legends.
• 1:04:41
  I know that for us to be on the floor,
• 1:04:44
  we have to be doing behind the scenes.
• 1:04:47
  For our people on the floor,
• 1:04:48
  we have to be in Northern Spirit.
• 1:04:55
  So hopefully they supply us
• 1:04:56
  with at least some.
• 1:04:59
  You'll probably get more than us.
• 1:05:03
  We'll find out.
• 1:05:04
  We also lost our ice bath sponsor,
• 1:05:07
  so there's no ice baths.
• 1:05:12
  Who was the ice bath sponsor?
• 1:05:13
  I think Chili Goat.
• 1:05:19
  And the other information we
• 1:05:21
  got was that they currently
• 1:05:25
  don't have any,
• 1:05:26
  like a Rosti isn't coming.
• 1:05:27
  They're working on getting somebody,
• 1:05:29
  so hopefully we do.
• 1:05:31
  But yeah.
• 1:05:32
  You guys are the ones that
• 1:05:33
  need it the most.
• 1:05:34
  I know.
• 1:05:36
  All the tape, all the everything,
• 1:05:37
  the foam rolls.
• 1:05:38
  I see Masters of the Games on day one,
• 1:05:42
  half of you guys have all
• 1:05:43
  taped up shoulders and knees.
• 1:05:46
  Yup.
• 1:05:48
  Yeah.
• 1:05:52
  Yeah, I'm actually,
• 1:05:54
  it sounds like all they're going to do,
• 1:05:55
  Boulder,
• 1:05:56
  Jason Grubb has offered to bring in, like,
• 1:05:58
  I think he has a few tubs.
• 1:05:59
  And so, like, those will be available.
• 1:06:01
  But that's,
• 1:06:02
  you're talking 500 plus
• 1:06:03
  athletes using three or four tubs.
• 1:06:05
  Like, yeah.
• 1:06:07
  I thought Jay Burch was
• 1:06:08
  talking about duct tape, binding twine.
• 1:06:11
  Oh, I was thinking the metal, like,
• 1:06:13
  troughs.
• 1:06:14
  I was thinking the stuff to
• 1:06:15
  hold the athlete together.
• 1:06:18
  I'm just kidding.
• 1:06:26
  All right.
• 1:06:26
  Well, we're, we're heading out,
• 1:06:28
  I think Tuesday evening.
• 1:06:29
  Okay.
• 1:06:30
  As far as we can so that we
• 1:06:32
  can be there for check-in
• 1:06:33
  to start the behind the scenes check-in.
• 1:06:36
  And I think Ortega is going
• 1:06:40
  to be there sometime that
• 1:06:41
  day and Caitlin will be
• 1:06:43
  there sometime that day.
• 1:06:43
  So yeah,
• 1:06:45
  we should get rolling right about then.
• 1:06:50
  But yes, super excited about that.
• 1:06:52
  Super excited to meet all
• 1:06:53
  these people I've met
• 1:06:54
  online over the last month
• 1:06:55
  and a half to get to meet them in person.
• 1:06:58
  But, you know,
• 1:07:00
  I was really upset about the
• 1:07:02
  40 in the lower divisions
• 1:07:04
  when it first came out.
• 1:07:06
  But some of the people I've
• 1:07:07
  talked to are in that 40th
• 1:07:08
  position and they're the coolest people.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, I'm sure they are.
• 1:07:18
  Uh, so Lex is asking,
• 1:07:20
  what's your plan for
• 1:07:21
  releasing content behind the scenes?
• 1:07:23
  Well,
• 1:07:23
  I'm going to put it behind a paywall.
• 1:07:25
  No.
• 1:07:28
  Like subscribe.
• 1:07:34
  If I ever would do that,
• 1:07:35
  it would just be for like a day or two.
• 1:07:37
  Yeah.
• 1:07:37
  Uh, but the, actually the,
• 1:07:39
  the plan is to release,
• 1:07:42
  to have an episode for every event.
• 1:07:46
  and for check-in so it
• 1:07:48
  should be an 11 episode
• 1:07:51
  behind the scenes and one
• 1:07:53
  for each event and then it
• 1:07:58
  the one being three minutes
• 1:08:00
  we may have to tweak that a
• 1:08:01
  bit but around that's the
• 1:08:04
  kind of the gist and I'm
• 1:08:05
  hoping to do one a week
• 1:08:08
  minimum after we get back oh my gosh
• 1:08:16
  What about the bad timing of
• 1:08:18
  the CrossFit trailer coming
• 1:08:20
  out the week after this year's games?
• 1:08:24
  Someone needs fired.
• 1:08:27
  It was free.
• 1:08:29
  They didn't pay for it.
• 1:08:33
  Yeah.
• 1:08:33
  My goal is to like get some
• 1:08:36
  good stuff at check in and
• 1:08:38
  start working on that Wednesday night.
• 1:08:41
  Cause I'll have some time.
• 1:08:43
  Are you doing it all by yourself,
• 1:08:45
  like putting everything
• 1:08:45
  together or are you working
• 1:08:47
  with one of your people
• 1:08:49
  that are going there?
• 1:08:50
  So I think Ortega and I are
• 1:08:51
  going to do all the editing.
• 1:08:54
  He's going to do all the workout stuff.
• 1:08:56
  I'm going to do all the
• 1:08:56
  interview stuff and then
• 1:08:58
  we'll combine it into.
• 1:09:02
  That's the agreement I've made with him.
• 1:09:05
  so anyway we can work on
• 1:09:08
  that check-in one which
• 1:09:10
  would be episode one I can
• 1:09:12
  start working on it
• 1:09:12
  wednesday night because
• 1:09:14
  I'll have time because
• 1:09:15
  chicken doesn't go that
• 1:09:16
  late and then just start
• 1:09:18
  piecing together stuff and
• 1:09:20
  then uh and then when I get
• 1:09:22
  home that I can start
• 1:09:23
  working on episode two is
• 1:09:25
  kind of the plan so episode
• 1:09:28
  one the week after and then
• 1:09:30
  just start going
• 1:09:32
  at at least one a week it
• 1:09:34
  might be more than that if
• 1:09:35
  we can get on a good roll
• 1:09:40
  so but yeah super excited
• 1:09:42
  about it and and I know
• 1:09:44
  like holly's super fast at
• 1:09:46
  the graphics the
• 1:09:48
  leaderboards and stuff
• 1:09:49
  she'll put all that in
• 1:09:49
  there um so but we have a
• 1:09:54
  lot of age groups to cover so it's
• 1:09:59
  It's going to be crazy.
• 1:10:00
  Have I sent you the heat sheet?
• 1:10:06
  No.
• 1:10:06
  You need to separate
• 1:10:07
  yourself between the 55
• 1:10:10
  plus and the 35 to 54.
• 1:10:14
  Really.
• 1:10:14
  Okay.
• 1:10:18
  You need two of you is what I'm saying.
• 1:10:21
  Okay.
• 1:10:23
  Okay.
• 1:10:28
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• 1:10:30
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• 1:10:35
  things um because we're
• 1:10:38
  back we'll be doing these
• 1:10:39
  every week hopefully we'll
• 1:10:41
  have a better script going
• 1:10:42
  forward um but next week
• 1:10:44
  we'll be less than a week
• 1:10:45
  away we'll be like three
• 1:10:47
  days away from masters
• 1:10:48
  games um and teenagers and teens yeah
• 1:10:53
  and teens yeah and then
• 1:10:55
  we've got adaptive after
• 1:10:57
  that with socal the same
• 1:10:59
  weekend uh and so we have
• 1:11:02
  that then almost
• 1:11:03
  immediately into rogue so
• 1:11:07
  things get crazy over the
• 1:11:09
  next few weeks uh and
• 1:11:12
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• 1:11:13
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